Happy Hour - Drink Specials & Catnip!
2026-08-07 20:00 - 22:00, 2026-08-06 20:00 - 22:00, 2026-08-05 20:00 - 22:00, 2026-07-26 20:00 - 22:00, 2026-07-25 20:00 - 22:00, 2026-07-24 20:00 - 22:00, 2026-07-23 20:00 - 22:00 (America/New_York) | The Scratching Post, 114 E University Ave, Champaign, IL, 61820, United States
8-10pm Wed-Sun. Drink specials for the humans, and the cats get their nightly dose of catnip. Come and relax with the cats during our last reservation of the day and enjoy our massive board game library!
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The 8:30pm Happy Hour Cat Lounge Reservations are 18+ only.
–Game passes are $5/person for 2 hours.
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$2.50 White Claw$6.00 Irish Whiskers Coffee (Jameson Irish Whiskey, Baileys Irish Cream, Coffee)$6.00 Irish Calico-co (Jameson Irish Whiskey, Baileys Irish Cream, Ghirardelli hot cocoa)
$6.00 Purrbon Chai (Buffalo Trace Bourbon, Big Train Chai)
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Spend 50 minutes in our cat lounges with 20+ adoptable cats. Your reservation not only helps to cover the cost of their care, but it also helps to socialize them, even if you aren’t looking to adopt. Thank you!
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Advance reservations are the only way to guarantee time in the lounge. We welcome walk-ins as long as there is space.
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MAKE A RESERVATION! https://scratchingpostcu.com/cat-cafe-reservations/
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Check out our monthly events! https://scratchingpostcu.com/events/

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Play with 20+ Adoptable Cats!
2026-08-07 14:30 - 21:20, 2026-08-06 14:30 - 21:20, 2026-08-05 14:30 - 21:20, 2026-07-26 14:30 - 21:20, 2026-07-25 14:30 - 21:20, 2026-07-24 14:30 - 21:20
Spend 50 minutes in our cat lounges with 20+ adoptable cats. Your reservation not only helps to cover the cost of their care, but it also helps to socialize them, even if you aren’t looking to adopt. Thank you!
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All of our cats come from local non-profit rescues and 100% of their adoption fee goes to the originating rescue. They are all spayed/neutered, microchipped, vaccinated and tested for many common pathogens.
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Advance reservations are the only way to guarantee time in the lounge. We welcome walk-ins as long as there is space, but if the hour is sold out, it may be a while before the next available lounge time.
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MAKE A RESERVATION!

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Local Art Exhibit - Maryam Ghadiri
2026-08-07 14:00 - 22:00, 2026-08-06 14:00 - 22:00, 2026-08-05 14:00 - 22:00, 2026-07-26 14:00 - 22:00, 2026-07-25 14:00 - 22:00, 2026-07-24 14:00 - 22:00
Walk through our cafe and enjoy a collection of local art by Maryam Ghadiri.
No admission fee to view the art on the cafe side. If you’d like to visit the cats in our lounge, you can make a reservation here.
Pieces will be available for sale. 10% of each art sale is donated to our partner non-profit rescues.
As always, we donate 20% of the profits from our food, drink and merch sales back to our partner rescues. Enjoy art, grab a drink, help cats.
Maryam Ghadiri
Maryam Ghadiri majored in engineering but has been passionate about art from a young age, starting drawing classes at the age of 10. She later took painting lessons under a professor at Tehran University for seven years. Specializing in abstract art, she works primarily in watercolor and mixed media. Maryam has exhibited her work in solo and group shows in Tehran, Los Angeles, and Urbana-Champaign. In 2020, she won first place in the Town and Country Art Show and third place in a state competition in Illinois.
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Play 500+ Board Games
2026-08-07 14:00 - 22:00, 2026-08-06 14:00 - 22:00, 2026-08-05 14:00 - 22:00, 2026-07-26 14:00 - 22:00, 2026-07-25 14:00 - 22:00, 2026-07-24 14:00 - 22:00
Our library has over 500 board games, both classic and modern.
–Want to keep it simple with something like Monopoly or Jenga? We’ve got you covered. What something more modern like Catan or Ticket to ride? We’ve got those too. Want something brand spankin’ new you can’t even buy in the stores yet? WE’VE GOT THOSE TOO.
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Game passes are $5/person for 2 hours and are first come first served for tables. We have lots of tools to help you choose a game (see our game picker linked below,) learn a game without actually reading the rules (most games are stickered with a QR code that takes you to a how to play video….for those of you that hate reading rulebooks) or you can even bring in your own game/DND group/etc. Same game pass pricing applies.
–PLUS we have snacks, drinks, alcohol, cats (in their separate lounge but viewable from the cafe side through large windows) and all the good vibes.
20% of the profits from our food, drink and merch sales go back to our partner rescues. Hang out. Buy stuff. Help cats.
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Check out our full game list here:https://scratchingpostcu.com/game-table-reservations/
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See what our Game Picker suggests for you here: https://gamepicker.scratchingpostcu.com/

CLOSED for Gencon!
2026-07-29 - 2026-08-02

RESCHEDULED! - D&D Night!
2026-07-25 18:00 - 22:00
D&D Night @The Scratching Post!
Come to D&D Night @The Scratching Post! Will we be making character sheets for our lounge cats? Yes. Will there be “pew pew” sound effects? Believe it.
Bring your own D&D group, get tickets for a one-shot led by one of our GMs or just hang out and enjoy the vibes.
D&D night will be on the cafe side, separate from the cat lounge. If you’d like to visit the cats you can make a reservation here!
Bring Your Own D&D Group
Email info@scratchingpostcafe.com to let us know how many people you’d like to reserve a table for. Game passes are $5/person and for D&D night we’re donating all game pass fees to our partner non-profit rescues!
Check out our Discord!
Get Tickets for a One Shot Campaign
D&D One Shot w/Professional Game Master Persephone Lovell
Professional Game Master Persephone Lovell will be present, running a one-shot session of The World’s Most Popular Tabletop RPG! Registration for this event is limited; tickets available below, to a maximum of 8 players. Bring a Level 3 5e (either 2014 or 2024, your pick!) character, else pre-made characters will be available to choose from. If you have questions, feel free to reach out to Persephone at persephonelovell44@gmail.com, or feel free to @ her on the Scratching Post Discord!
Check out our Discord!
7/25 D&D rescheduled! Check out the August event here!

Drinks, Snacks, Alcohol
As always, we donate 20% of the profits from our food, drink and merch sales back to our partner rescues. Thank you for helping local cats!

Demo Day!
2026-07-25 14:00 - 22:00
Saturdays are Demo Days! We’ll have a game set up at the end of our bar and we’ll take you through a quick demo to get a feel for how to play. All demo day games are available for sale and available in our library, so if you like the demo, you can buy a copy for yourself or purchase a game pass to play our library copy.
20% of the profits from the sales of our food, drinks and merch are donated back to our partner rescues, so buying a game from us levels up your good vibes.
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July Demo Games Schedule

Saturday, July 4 – Rock Hard 1977
Saturday, July 11 – Mouse Cheese Cat Cucumber
Saturday, July 18 – A Place for All My Books
Saturday, July 25 – Lightning Train

August Demo Games Schedule

Saturday, August 8 – GenCon Haul!
Saturday, August 15 – GenCon Haul!
Saturday, August 22 – One Round?
Saturday, August 29 – Squirrel Away

September Demo Games Schedule

Saturday, September 5 – Purrfect Potions
Saturday, September 12 – Cat Fluxx
Saturday, September 19 – Cucumber Catastrophe
Saturday, September 26 – Cat Says Moo

Trivia Night @The Scratching Post!
2026-07-24 19:00 - 21:00
Put your trivia knowledge to the test for a CASH PRIZE. Your ticket price goes into the pot for first place prize!

Tickets are $3 per person and can be paid when you arrive. Cash is preferred and the full ticket price goes into the pot for first place prize.
Teams of 6 or less
check-in starts at 6:45pm for 7pm start.
email info@scratchingpostcafe.com to let us know how many people are on your team so we can reserve the correct size table for you.

Trivia is held on the cafe side, separate from the cat lounge. If you’d like to make a reservation to meet the cats, you can do that here!

Crochet with Cats! - Ramone the Cone
2026-07-23 20:30 - 22:00
What you get
Spend 1.5 hours crocheting with 20+ adoptable cats! Your ticket covers an extended cat lounge reservation, a Bucilla Amigurumi Crochet Kit and a free drink!

Bucilla Amigurumi Crochet Kits come with everything you need to create a tiny little crocheted creature. Crochet hook, yarn, video tutorial, all you have to do is show up! We’ll have the how-to-video playing on our TV in the lounge, but you can also bring ear buds and watch directly from your phone if you really want to be able to focus on the project.
Relax with our cats during our last reservation of the day and start creating your little crocheted friend to finish at home!
Your reservation not only helps to cover the cost of their care, but it also helps to socialize them, even if you aren’t looking to adopt. Thank you!

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